Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of short fiction.
Final Judge: Tammy Lynne Stoner
Let him choose the place. Somewhere familiar, like the coffee shop on the corner that only ...
How to Tell That Guy You’ve Been Dating, Your Boyfriend, or Your Friend (Whom You’re Actually in Love With) You Have a Disability by Lillie Lainoff
Award Winners, LAR Online
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.
Diane Arbus
To photograph truthfully and ...
Photographic Memory by Linda Murphy Marshall
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Aging is a possibility, like a promise
made between you and me on an autumn day,
when Halloween had thrill.
I remember our names and the games
we played, Konstantin, but not our jokes.
What matters is that we ...
Myth of Growing Old as Brothers by Tim Neil
LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of creative nonfiction.
Final Judge: Adrianne Kalfopoulou
I am a “Redbone.” It refers to a range of skin color that makes people ask, ...
A Redbone’s Reality by Renée Ozburn
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Terror Lullabies
Nude on the hotel plush
I eat red jam from glass jars
warm cream with my fingers.
Genet, I ask
what will I do
with this body.
Monstrous, he murmurs
in the middle of a speech
on ...
Three Poems by Cynthia Cruz
LAR Online, Poetry
Snow again, I can’t hear it falling
in birches, yard, garden beds, heady
tufts and root down of winter carrots,
though I stare out there, as if
listening to the making. The way,
a kid, I’d rise in the middle of ...
The Listening by James Hoch
LAR Online, Poetry
for Bill Evans, 1929 - 1980
The photo gives no year. I guess by hair,
the spotlit sheen on your pomade—you’ve yet
to grow it out. But junk already claims
your veins. See how that mohair suit sags ...
Consecration by Adam Tavel
LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction.
Final Judge: Brittany McLaughlin
Netta says Alessandra killed herself. We’re in bed, Lily asleep with her nose buried in my ...
Mexican Shoots Himself in the Chest by Stanley Delgado
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
Hi my name
is Amenhotep
and I’m an alcoholic.
I’m 38.
I’m an American citizen.
I was named
for an obscure brand
of Canadian beer.
I was born with no teeth.
When they arrived
I had a cavity.
I had no ...
There Will Have Been Phosphorescence by Ethan Stebbins
LAR Online, Poetry
